Category Archives: public health

The Australian Vaccination-risks Network (formerly Australian Vaccination Network, and Australian Vaccination Skeptics Network), has a NSW Health Care Complaints Commission public health warning issued against it and its president Meryl Dorey: The AVN has steadfastly refused to amend its anti-vaccination … Continue reading →

I haven’t written about ex-Queensland police officer Chris Savage for a couple of years. From 2016, Antivaxer Savage bailed in NZ and asking for donations: Thanks to the man himself we now have an update on the whereabouts and latest happenings … Continue reading →

“In summary, our baby died from whooping cough and therefore you claim that all parents must have a chiropractor on speed-dial. It’s almost as if you are using our child’s death to promote your own chiropractic business. Wait, not almost … Continue reading →

Judy Wilyman – the anti-vaccination activist inexplicably granted a PhD by the University of Wollongong – has a long history of vilifying bereaved parents: several times, Wilyman has claimed that the whooping cough deaths of babies Dana McCaffery and Riley … Continue reading →

Wonderful news came this week regarding the success of maternal whooping cough boosters in saving the lives of babies too young to be immunised. From NSW Government Facebook: Not a single child has died from whooping cough since the free … Continue reading →

Last week, Queensland media outlets succumbed to lobbying from Queensland anti-vaccination activist Allona Lahn. Incredibly, one of them was ABC Sunshine Coast. It’s like no one at the station had learned anything from the past decade of embarrassing Meryl Dorey … Continue reading →

On Tuesday February 20 2018, a measles alert was issued for Melbourne after an infectious person visited several locations: What is the issue? There has been one confirmed case of measles in Melbourne. The infection was acquired in Victoria and … Continue reading →

This post will be a little self-indulgent, in that it has been coming for a long time – fifteen months in the making – and that the circumstances surrounding the doxxing, defamation and vilification of a complete stranger, by anti-vaccination … Continue reading →

On January 23 2018, in hardcore anti-vaccination Facebook group Anti-Vaccination Australia – yes, the group run by Belgin Arslan, who, with Brett Smith of the discredited Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network, vilified and doxxed an innocent Byron Bay physiotherapist and his family in … Continue reading →